TORRES DEL PAINE: PHOTO SAFARI OF WILDLIFE & LANDSCAPES – 5 DAYS 4 NIGHTS

A private transfer will pick you up at your Puerto Natales hotel and drive you two hours to Torres del Paine National Park. You’ll immediately find wonderful photo-taking opportunities in the lagoons dotted with Chilean flamingos and black-necked swans that we pass. Soon after, we’ll set off on our wildlife safari, a gentle trail along the Park’s border where condors circle the skies and guanacos (llama family) graze silhouetted against the mountains. We’ll stop to capture Torres del Paine’s moody landscapes en route to our campsite, and later shoot the sunset splashed across the twilight skies.

FULL VEHICLE SUPPORT THROUGHOUT THE DAY / 3 HOURS BY BOAT A sunrise photoshoot from our campsite begins our day, following by breakfast and a transfer to Grey Lake. To reach the pier we’ll take a short walk through a beech forest. (Keep your camera handy while walking: woodpeckers, Austral parakeets and huemuls, or Andean deer, call this forest home.) We’ll cruise Grey Lake for about an hour, weaving through blue-hued icebergs and stopping right in front of Grey Glacier’s massive facade. Here, we’ll stay for a while to take pictures, observe the glacier’s intricate colors and icy textures - and maybe even see ice chunks calving. As you make your way back, take time to capture Paine Grande and its wind-sculpted “ice mushroom” peak. Ashore once again, we’ll have a picnic lunch and walk along the beach to observe once free-floating icebergs that have been marooned at the shores by the Park’s strong winds.

FULL VEHICLE SUPPORT THROUGHOUT THE DAY The day begins with a sunrise shoot of the western face of the Torres Del Paine from our camp. Our first destination today is Sarmiento Lake, the largest in the Park. We’ll stop here to enjoy the view, have lunch and snap this glacial lake’s dark blue waters and the distinctive white calcium deposits that hug its shoreline. Later we’ll drive to via Lake Nordenskjöld to Salto Grande waterfall to photograph its waters and the wildflowers blooming nearby (orchids, calceolarias and neneos depending on the season). A picnic lunch and well-deserved siesta at our campsite follow. Once rested, we’ll head east to another prime location for observing guanacos, to photograph their antics once again. Night at Chile Nativo Domes (B-BL-D).

1 HR BY TRANSFER / 1 HR WALK Today we’ll set off very early to the eastern side of the park to shoot the sunrise backdropped by the three Towers. (Our departure before sunrise means there is a chance of glimpsing a puma.) Our next destination is Laguna Azul, an enchanting lake bordering the park; home to ducks, swans, coots, woodpeckers and blessed with an incredible view of the Towers. We’ll have lunch here then enjoy an afternoon perfecting our floral, wildlife and landscape photography. Night at Chile Nativo Domes (B-BL-D).